Posted on 08/04/2007 10:22:08 AM PDT by PackerBoy
I need some culinary shopping help.
I am sponsoring a member of our military through www.AdoptaPlatoon.com. When you sponsor a service member, you commit to write to them weekly, and send a "care package" every month. (My guy is in Baghdad and has a laptop PC with Internet access, so we get to exchange emails several times a week!)
Any, I have recently learned that he yearns for "Fish Steaks in Louisiana Hot Sauce" and I am trying to surpise him for his upcoming birthday with a shipment of them.
The problem is that I cannot find anyone that carries this item, even through Brunswick apparently makes and sells a version. If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would very much appreciate it.
BTW, AdoptaPlatoon is a first rate organization and I highly recommend supporting it. I have found my participation very rewarding because I am connecting on a personal level with someone serving our Country in the war.
aka Sardines in Louisiana Hot Sauce
Should ship quite well.
STEAKS! Not sticks. They are yummy.
I'm pinging Allegra to the threat because if anyone knows where to get some fresh fish in Baghdad, it's her.
Best of luck.
If you talk to the company they’ll probably send you/him/his platoon a whole CASE gratis!!!!!
The manufacturer is Brunswick. Here’s how you can find a store near you:
http://www.bumblebee.com/contact.jsp?pg=intro
Know where I can get 'em?
According to this webpage at the company, these are genuine American products:
Fresh from the cold Atlantic waters of the Gulf of Maine, the day's catch is taken rapidly by company ship to one of the two modern BEACH CLIFF packing plants in Maine....
In the packing room, sardine size herring are packed four to twelve fish per can. Larger fish become BEACH CLIFF Fish Steaks and fillets. Regardless of size or product, every single can is packed by hand - over 65,000,000 cans a year! No machine has ever been invented that could match the speed, skill and care of our Maine packers.
a different brand: http://www.shopbettys.com/detail.aspx?ID=300
Brunswick has a home page and there is a link where you can find out where to buy them.
http://www.brunswick.ca/brunswick/usaenglish/product_mainpage.asp
You might consider writing them and telling them your story. You never know.
That’s the sort of stuff Big Lots has. Did you look there?
They are pretty good, too, if you like sardines, kippered snacks, etc.
Canned fish is OK to ship here. I order tuna and anchovies (yeah, I like them....I know almost everyone else hates 'em...LOL) from www.netgrocer.com and all goes well.
I have eaten fresh fish here in the past (mazqouf), but they're recommending we don't do that in the summer since it comes out of the Tigris.
Check the grocery store, there should be several brands offered.
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